“If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).”
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Rick Warren
“Por lo general, el mayor enemigo para nuestro éxito en el futuro es nuestro éxito en el pasado.”
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Rick Warren
“The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.”
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Rick Warren
“But God’s presence in your life has nothing to do with your feelings. Your emotions are susceptible to all kinds of influences, so they are often unreliable. Sometimes the worst advice you can get is “Do what you feel.” Often what we feel is neither real nor right. Your emotional state can be the result of memories, hormones, medicines, food, lack of sleep, tension, or fears. Whenever I start to feel anxious about a situation, I remind myself that fear is often False Evidence Appearing Real.”
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Rick Warren
“When this tent we live in—our body here on earth—is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1 TEV”
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Rick Warren
“If you want French fries, then make them yourself from whole potatoes and unrefined, unprocessed oil.”
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Rick Warren
“Put Jesus Christ in the driver’s seat of your life and take your hands off the steering wheel.”
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Rick Warren
“Every day is an important day, and every second is a growth opportunity to deepen your character, to demonstrate love, or to depend on God.”
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Rick Warren
“It doesn’t matter what your age is, God will use you if you will begin to act and think like a servant.”
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Rick Warren
“love is the only thing that can change the unchangeable.”
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Rick Warren
“The Daniel Plan is a way of life, or as some have called it, a health-style that takes the guessing out of eating and cooking.”
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Rick Warren
“If there was no God, we would all be “accidents,” the result of astronomical random chance in the universe. You could stop reading this book, because life would have no purpose or meaning or significance. There would be no right or wrong, and no hope beyond your brief years here on earth.”
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Rick Warren
“The first misconception is that we confuse fear with humility. We tend to say, “Oh, I could never do that,” and we think we’re being humble. But that is not humility. That is fear; that is a lack of faith. A truly humble person would say, “With God’s help, I can do it. With God’s blessing, I will do it. I may not be able to do it on my own, but with God’s help I will do it.” That’s real humility.”
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Rick Warren
